Hymns

There's a focus this week on the Elements - hymns that reference Earth, Wind, Water or Fire. Audio

The Auckland-based Handel Quire gets this week’s programme off to a great start with Isaac Watts’ hymn Lord of the worlds above. Audio

Brass bands and hymns – it’s a combination that’s hard to beat! In this week’s programme you can hear an arrangement of Abide with me, played by Woolston Brass. Audio

We’re marking the Feast of Corpus Christi with hymns including Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and I am the Bread of Life written in the 1960s by American nun Sister Suzanne Toolan. Audio

It’s Trinity Sunday, celebrating the three persons of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Audio

Celebrating Samoan Language Week and the Feast of Pentecost with hymns including Vivi’ I Ia Ma Fa’afetai, Breathe on me, breath of God, and Spirit of God, rest on your people. Audio

Hymns for Ascension Sunday include Marnie Barrell’s Christ ascends to God, Hail the day that sees him rise by Charles Wesley and a hymn by his colleague, Edward Perronet. Audio

We're marking Mother's Day with hymns to Mary, and Shirley Murray's Loving Spirit. Audio

Music plays an important role in the coronation of King Charles III – and there are some hymns in the service. We’ll hear two of them in this week’s programme. Audio

The days are getting shorter – and colder – and autumn colours are all around. The perfect time for harvest hymns! Audio

We look ahead to Anzac Day on 25 April with hymns sung at the very first Anzac Day service in 1916 (held in Christchurch Cathedral) and peace-themed hymns. Audio

This week's programme features resurrection-themed hymns for Eastertide, an atmospheric rendition of Amazing Grace by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and a benediction from the 1662 Book of… Audio

Hymns to celebrating Easter Sunday include two New Zealand hymns, a hymn from the 8^th century and the 21^st century classic In Christ Alone. Audio

Hymns for Palm Sunday today, celebrating the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and marking the beginning of Holy Week in the Christian liturgical calendar. Audio

Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20^th century classic, The servant king.

This week we’ve communion hymns, a psalm from the Scottish Psalter, and some hymns from writers who are proof that age is no barrier to trying something new. Audio

There’s a ‘wealth of Williams’ in this week’s programme – hymn writers, arrangers and hymn tune composers. Including William Williams, one of the leaders of the Methodist revival in Wales in the 18^th… Audio

In this week’s programme we’ve hymns for the second Sunday in Lent, and we’re marking some recent dates in the liturgical calendar: World Day of Prayer on 3 March and St David’s Day on 1 March. Audio

Hymns to mark the first Sunday in Lent, and a hymn by Shirley Murray that turned out to be much more successful than she expected. Audio

Hymns inspired by Psalm 150, Praise God in his sanctuary, feature in this week’s programme. Audio